page_title: Karen LaMonte
section_title: Cumulus
hierarchical_section_title: Karen LaMonte / Major works / Cumulus
caption_attribution_description: English: Sculptor Karen LaMonte examines Cumulus, a work in marble that she created with the help of complex weather models, a super computer, and robots.
context_page_description: Karen LaMonte is an American artist known for her life-size sculptures in ceramic, bronze, marble, and cast glass.
context_section_description: Cumulus cloud|Cumulus (2017) is LaMonte's first major work of Italian marble. She was drawn to the medium because she wanted “to use a material forged by the forces of nature to represent the forces of nature.” The sculpture is eight feet tall and weighs two-and-a-half tons; it was modeled on climatological data from real-life weather and was carved with the help of robots and a super-computer.
  "Only by using technology could I make the diaphanous solid and the intangible permanent," LaMonte told Caltech magazine.
  Cumulus was first displayed at the Venice Biennale at Glasstress, Palazzo Franchetti, Venice.
caption: LaMonte examines her marble work Cumulus.
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